TBL series

A new series of articles has started on Teaching English.org.uk, this time by Jane Willis, on task-based learning (TBL):

Task-based teaching is about creating opportunities for meaning-focused language use

The first article in the series, Criteria for identifying tasks for TBL, looks at the following, among other things:

• What kind of activity is a task?
• How you can "upgrade" things in your coursebook to make them truly "task-based"
• Adding a goal or outcome to make a task

The rest of the series:

• Article #2 >> Six types of task for TBL
• Article #3 >> From priming tasks and target tasks to language focus and grammar
• Article #4 >> How to include tasks and cover the textbook syllabus
  

See also:

• A task-based approach
• Previous series on reading